Enki

Anunnaki deity, god of wisdom, creation, and water, patron of Eridu.

Core Themes

• Wisdom and creation.
• Linked to Forbidden Knowledge.

Related Concepts & Sources

Abzu (domain), Enki and Ninhursag (narrative), Creation of Humanity (theme)

Scholarly entry: Enki/Ea (god), Ancient Mesopotamian Gods and Goddesses (Oracc, University of Pennsylvania).

Attestations in Cuneiform Corpora

• Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
• The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Royal Inscriptions
• The Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship
• The Corpus of Ancient Mesopotamian Scholarship
• Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (search)

References

• Bottéro, J. 2002. "Intelligence and the technical function of power: Enki-Ea". In Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods , pp. 232-250. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Cavigneaux, A. and Krebernik, M. 1998-2001a. "Niššiku." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie 9 , p. 590. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Cooper, J.S. 1989. "Enki's member: Eros and irrigation in Sumerian literature". In H. Behrens, D. Loding and M. T. Roth (eds), Dumu-e 2 -dub-ba-a: Studies in Honor of Åke W. Sjöberg , pp. 87-89. Occasional Publications of the Samuel Noah Kramer Fund. Philadelphia, PA.: Samuel Noah Kramer Fund, University Museum.
• Dickson, K. 2007. "Enki and Ninhursag: the trickster in paradise". Journal of Near Eastern Studies 66 : 1-32. Available online via JSTOR [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/512211] (subscription required).
• Galter, H. D. 1983. Der Gott Ea/Enki in der akkadischen Uberlieferung: eine Bestandsaufnahme des vorhandenen Materials . Graz: Verlag für die Technische Universität Graz.
• Izre'el, S. 2001. Adapa and the South Wind: Language has the Power of Life and Death . Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns.
• Kramer, S.N. and J.R. Maier 1989. Myths of Enki, the Crafty God . Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Michalowski, P. 1980. "Adapa and the ritual process." Rocznik Orientalistyczny 41 : 77-82. PDF version of article (420 KB) [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp/downloads/michalowski_ro41.pdf] via Knowledge & Power in the Neo-Assyrian Empire [http://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/knpp] .